Tenderly lift me
Subtitle: nurses honored, celebrated, and remembered
By: [compiled by] Jeanne Bryner
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780873388023
Subjects: Nurses; Nurse and patient; Poetry; Nursing
Description: "Author and poet Jeanne Bryner has gathered biographical sketches of remarkable nurses, each accompanied by poetry and photographs, and has created this multigenre presentation that is compassionate and complex." "This is the first book in the Literature and Medicine Series that concentrates on nurses' voices and their experiences in providing health care. It enhances and broadens our perspectives on how health care is delivered and understood by the nurses who are our primary care givers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181).

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Learning the body; title: Standing there; title: Side rails; title: To the place of orchids; title: Covering lilacs; title: Elsewhere sparrows : a note to some physicians; title: Teaching women to speak; title: Village; title: Story; title: What has happened; title: One nurse's job : eye recovery on a kindergartner; title: Testimony; title: A boat they float in; title: Underground : a note to my brother, Kurt; title: To save what we most love; title: The evolution of light: East Liverpool, Ohio, site of the WTI incinerator; title: Juba; title: Letter to Josephine, 1996; title: Renaissance sketchbook : a woman's story; title: Miscarriage : the nurse speaks to the baby; title: For Maude Callen : nurse midwife, Pineville, South Carolina, 1951; title: Holding back the world; title: Letter to Christine, girl baby found, Ohio hospital, 1958; title: How I lost my job as a staff nurse in 1969, because I was pregnant; title: August delivery; title: Hope chest : what the heart teaches; title: On my gloves blood dries in a pattern like faded roses in wallpaper; title: At dusk, two women trace a heart's river; title: Letter to World War I surgeon Dr. Henry Russell, from Nurse Jeanette Price, September, 1929; title: What it cost to cross the Atlantic; title: Becoming a nurse; title: Breathless; title: Body of knowledge : remembering diploma nursing schools, 1976; title: Letter from ward three; title: Loving women; title: This red oozing; title: The labor of tenderness; title: After the battle : in a room where we have tried to save a life; title: Butterfly; title: Mentally traumatized unit : nursing assignment, England 1942; title: To my town came a snow storm, nurse's diary, City Hospital of Cleveland, OH; title: November 24, 1950; title: Call and response; title: Birch canoe; title: November 1963; title: At thirteen, I decide to become a nurse; title: Warblers; title: What nurses do : the marriage of suffering and healing; title: School nurse; title: Christmas is another moon; title: When I tell my mother I want to be a doctor; title: Pentimento; title: Begin again; title: Interview with Sister Denis of St. Joseph's Hospitallers Colony of Montreal, New France, 1694; title: Wait for morning : from Kate Cumming's journal; title: Jane Stuart Woolsey, Union Nurse from camp, near Alexandria, 1862; title: Nurse's letter, May 30, 1864, Armory Square Hospital, WDC; title: A tribute to Miss Rebecca Taylor upon retirement after thirty-four years; title: Houses are burning : Belgium, 1915; title: If it weren't for ears; title: The brain's soliloquy; title: Clay pigeon; title: In praise of hands; title: Permissions; title: Notes on the text; title: Bibliography.